Oration Delivered Before the Democratic Citizens of the County of Worcester: July 4, 1837Mirick & Bartlett, 1837 - 72 páginas |
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Adam Smith anarchists Andrew Jackson aristocracy assignats average bank capital bank issues bank notes Bank of England banking system bankruptcy bills lost British cent charter circulation consolida Constitution contract cotton course creditors debts democratic party discounts distress duties effect eighteen hundred evils fall Fisher Ames fluctuations forty France gold and silver houses hundred dollars hundred millions hundred thousand dollars increase injustice institutions interest irredeemable paper John Law land laws less Liberty loans loss Massachusetts metallic currency millions of dollars MIRICK & BARTLETT monopoly National Bank never nine millions operation overbanking paid paper credit paper currency paper money banking peace of Ryswick petitions price of wheat profit proportion purchases received revolution rise ROBERT RANTOUL ruin SAMUEL WARD seven shillings small bills specie payments speculation three hundred tion Treasury United States Bank wages whig whig party whole amount wisdom WORCESTER
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Página 9 - THE end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Página 9 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property, according to standing laws.
Página 44 - I knew well enough (it could not be concealed from any body) the true state of things ; but, in my life, I never came with so much spirits into this House. It was a time for a man to act in. We had powerful enemies ; but we had faithful and determined friends ; and a glorious cause. We had a great battle to fight ; but we had the means of fighting; not as now, when our arms are tied behind us. We did fight that day and conquer.
Página 40 - ... and the robberies committed by depreciated paper. Our own history has recorded for our instruction enough and more than enough of the demoralizing tendency, the injustice, and the intolerable oppression on the virtuous and well-disposed of a degraded paper currency authorized by law or in any way countenanced by Government.
Página 44 - Everything, upon every side, was full of traps and mines. Earth below shook ; heaven above menaced ; all the elements of Ministerial safety were dissolved. It was in the midst of this chaos of plots and counter-plots ; it was in the midst of this complicated warfare against public opposition and private treachery, that the firmness of that noble Person was put to the proof. He never stirred from his ground; no, not an inch. He remained fixed and determined, in principle, in measure, and in conduct....
Página 9 - Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable unalienable.
Página 65 - We have suffered more from this cause than from every other cause or calamity. It has killed more men, pervaded and corrupted the choicest interests of our country more, and done more injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemy.
Página 65 - ... increased the evils it was designed to remedy, and destroyed the benefits it was intended to promote: at best its utmost effect was like that of water sprinkled on a blacksmith's forge, which indeed deadens the flame for a moment, but never fails to increase the heat and flame of the internal fire. Many thousand families of full and easy fortune were ruined by these fatal measures, and lie in ruins to this day, without the least benefit to the country, or to the great and noble cause in which...
Página 40 - Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money.
Página 70 - Europe would be a conflagration of papcr credit. When that catastrophe befalls the insolvent governments of the old world, when the national debt of England, " incurred one half in pulling down the Bourbons, and the other half in setting them up," explodes, and blows up with it the bank, the East India Company, and the government, while the debts of the continent topple down with the shock, will not the contest over the wreck be fiercer than the memorable reign of terror, in proportion as greater...